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| Reckless drivers: Threat on wheels | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 9: Posing a threat to people and themselves as well some 'road zoomers' could be seen throttling their bikes and cars as none including these riders and their parents don't care till any fatalities happens leaving other maimed or injured but of their no fault.
Time and again blame game often starts particularly when an accident takes place when parents try hard to save their child on the other hand family members of victim curse the guilty and the traffic department for adopting a 'mute spectator's stand.'
Zooming bikers without helmets, cars turning with screeching tyres is common scene but all blame the traffic department but none of Jammuites ever has bothered to look for the faultiness within the society. "Has anybody questioned the role of affluent parents who never bother what their children are doing," says Abhishek Sharma.
He also pin points that with the emergence of smaller section of cars and two wheelers like scooties the underage children have become the ruler of the roads while the new age bikes have boosted the stunt driving but nothing else among the young generation.
Aditti Gupta a shopper in Purani Mandi of old Jammu humming similar tunes said, "the 'road zoomers' virtually have left no place to the pedestrian as you don't from where they will appear with finger on a noisy pressure horns making you fixed in a tight spot.'
In fact reckless driving, riders without helmets, and illegally parked vehicles turning narrow roads to face clogged all have become norm of the day, while traffic personnel along the roads watch helplessly and occasionally they seem to take steps to deal with the menace.
"In the past the traffic police had acted against underage drivers but the parents opposed the efforts of police," says Superintendent of Police Sujit Kumar Chouhan. He also said that some public schools in the city and students continue to use two-wheelers and park these outside school gates which cause traffic disorder.
Blaimg it on lack of civic sense, he adds that despite installation of 'no-entry' signboards on many roads to avoid traffic jams, people continue to poke their nose while defy the rules and causing traffic congestion.
Meanwhile underlining strict action and penalty, Radha Krishan, a shopkeeper says that traffic police needs to deal sternly against underage drivers.
"Increased penalties, seizing vehicles of violators, traffic awareness workshops for school students are some of the ways by which this menace can be controlled," he sums up. |
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